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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictBridges and dams always stand out as key symbols of public works engineering; Daniel Schodek's Landmarks in American Civil Engineering (MIT Pr., 1987) identified many such prominent structures ... Read full review
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| Title | Great American Bridges and Dams Great American Places Series National Trust guide |
| Author | Donald Conrad Jackson |
| Contributor | National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States |
| Publisher | Preservation Press, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 4, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0891331298, 9780891331292 |
| Length | 357 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / History / General Technology & Engineering / Civil / General |
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